Mention of Maqu County, very amusing people want to run together in the Maqu grassland, meet Maqu; in fact, many people still do not know, Maqu in the eastern end of the Tibetan Plateau, the junction of Gan, Qing, Sichuan provinces, the first bend of the Yellow River. Maqu is the Tibetan pronunciation, Chinese meaning ? Yellow River? , it is the only county in China named after a major river, and at the same time, Maqu also has the most beautiful wetland grassland in China.
Maqu County realized a gross domestic product (GDP) of 1150.28 million yuan in 2011, a 5.5 percent increase from 2010, until 2019, when the ZF of Gansu Province approved the official exit of Maqu County from the poverty-stricken county. Nowadays, the county town of Maqu is a beautiful new grassland city with strong ethnic characteristics, and the tourism industry is developing rapidly, which has established itself as the ? The Hometown of Horse Racing in China? The first bend of the Yellow River in the world. The First Bend of the Yellow River? The world's largest and most beautiful wetland meadow. The world's largest and most beautiful wetland grassland? The most beautiful wetland meadow in the world, and the largest wetland in the world. The birthplace of Gesar? The birthplace of Gesar. Hometown of Tibetan folk songs? Five major tourism and cultural brands.
Maqu, in the whole area known as? Zhuoge Lingdi? known as, had been the Austrian-American explorer, scholar Joseph? Locke known as ? Mysterious Qiang Sea? Since the Han Dynasty, Maqu has been known as the "Mysterious Sea of Qiang". Since the Han Dynasty, Maqu has been known as the best animal husbandry in the world. Since the Han Dynasty, Maqu has had the reputation of being the best animal husbandry in the world. Ancient rhinoceros? is the hometown of the ancient rhinoceros, is the center of the origin of the Hequ horse. Tall Hequ horse, running like flying, athletic figure like the wind like swept across the grassland, had for the Qin Shi Huang unified the six countries under the sweat of merit.
The rushing Yellow River presents itself here in front of you in a graceful and soft posture! To see the first bend of the Yellow River, you must go up the mountain to see it. The Yellow River originated in Qinghai, all the way from the west to the east and flow, across the vast wilderness, into the green, Gan, Sichuan junction of the vast grasslands, look to run to the southeast of the north of Sichuan, but by the uplift of the Songpan Plateau and the towering West Tilting Mountains blocked, made a 180-degree turn, turn around and then return to Qinghai, forming a 433-kilometer-long nine bends in the Yellow River First Bend, known as the ? The First Bend of the Yellow River?
Maqu County is surrounded by this first bend. It is this first turn of her head that makes the first bend of the Yellow River form the ? Maqu Qiao Ke (called Qiao Er Gan in Tibetan)? This world-famous swampy wetland, for thousands of years culminating in the world's first bend of the Yellow River and the mother river of the Chinese nation. To this day, Maqu grassland is still regarded by ecological experts as the Yellow River's? Natural Reservoir? and? Chinese water tower.
Maqu has a Yellow River Bridge, which is the first bridge built in the upper reaches of the Yellow River in China's history, and used to be called the ? The First Yellow River Bridge? The First Bridge over the Yellow River? It was only later when a new bridge was built across the river in Qinghai upstream that it was no longer called the First Bridge over the Yellow River! Nowadays, all the publicity you see has been changed to "The First Bridge over the Yellow River". The first bridge of the first song of the Yellow River? The first bridge over the Yellow River?
Gesar Square is located in the center of Maqu County, the square has a lot of sculptures and murals, depicting the story of King Gesar, opposite the square is Gesar Commercial Street. At the foot of the West Tilting Mountain, with the content of Gesar Divine Horse, there are Gesar Divine Horse main sculpture platform, flag platform, Nine Dragons Hall, eight totem poles, sunken plaza and other buildings. Plaza lawn, green trees, flowers, Hequ Shenma prancing as if flying, carved dragons come to life.
Maqu grassland, is a piece of flowing grassland, but also a piece of a hundred rivers competing for the flow, a thousand streams convergence of the treasure, the Yellow River in the Maqu County more than 10,000 square kilometers of beautiful and fertile prairie, Maqu grassland vegetation is good, abundant rainfall, surface water is very rich, the formation of the Yellow River first song of the largest piece of grassland wetland. The terrain here is mostly flat river valley beach, stretching tens of kilometers. Whenever summer comes, some traditional religious activities and mass sports activities are held here. The herdsmen dressed in national costumes, horses galloping, lively.
In addition, Zhongke Viewing Platform is located 14 kilometers away from Maqu County, which is a place for travelers and self-drivers to relax and view the natural ecological landscape and folk customs of the Tibetan Plateau against the background of the magnificent and beautiful grassland wetlands and the first bend of the Yellow River. Even during the peak traveling season, the place is still peaceful. July and August are the best time to visit and a place to escape the summer heat.
In short, the Tibetan people here are generous, brave, simple and kind. Children sing when they can talk and dance when they can walk. Whenever the Tibetan New Year comes, the herdsmen, dressed in bright and colorful national costumes, joyfully come to the monastery to chant and pray for blessings, gather around the bonfire and dance the joyful potshang, the grand joyful scene is often breathtaking. Traveling in Maqu, even if the road is bumpy and long, but in the sky of the plateau there is the light of hope irradiation, there is a fiery passion burning, that dazzling moment of beauty, surely can purify your soul, for you to interpret the true meaning of life and the power of life.